Horst Buhtz

Horst Buhtz ( born September 21, 1923 in Magdeburg ) is a former German football player and coach.

Career

Playing career

The technically -studded offensive player was initially at Fortuna Magdeburg active, where he already came up with a special permission of the DFB as a 16- year-old in the men's team to use. After escaping from the Soviet occupation zone in 1947, he joined Kickers Offenbach, with whom he was in 1949 and 1950 South German champion was defeated in the final of the German Football Championship against VfB Stuttgart 1-2. He scoring the consolation goal for Kickers. From 1950 to 1952 he played for VfB Mühlburg, next to Phoenix Karlsruhe one of the previous clubs of Karlsruher SC, in the big leagues, the formerly top division. In five years in the Oberliga Süd Horst Buhtz scored 69 goals in 143 games.

In 1952, he joined as the second German player - according to Ludwig Janda TSV 1860 München - to Italy and played five years with the Torino in Serie A. Il Tedesco, " the German, " as he was called the Tifosi there, earned per season to 150,000 DM German Oberliga -contract players were allowed, for example, as late as 1963 only receive a maximum of 400 marks net per month plus up to 100 marks proven loss of earnings and also had to show a job.

Buhtz was one of the stars of the new Turin team, which was rebuilt after the plane crash of Superga in 1949, in which nearly all players had perished, and scored per season to 20 goals. In 1957 he left Turin. After that he went to in Switzerland nor for the Young Fellows Zurich and AC Bellinzona and then returned to Germany.

Since Buhtz of the game system manufactures Fritz Walter was similar and the DFB for years reservations about professional players entertained - especially if they were working abroad - it brought the prolific game designers only on a B- countries game (1951 against Switzerland ).

Coaching career

As a coach Horst Buhtz initially worked in 1962 at the former Southwest Oberliga Sportfreunde 05 Saarbrücken and has been with the club from the district Burbach sixth. The following stations were Borussia Neunkirchen (1963-1966), Hannover 96 (1966-1968), Wuppertal SV (1968-1974), Beşiktaş Istanbul (1974-1976), Borussia Dortmund (1976 ), 1 FC Nuremberg ( 1976-1978 ), Bayer 05 Uerdingen ( 1978-1981 ), Alemannia Aachen ( 1981-1982 ) and the Stuttgart Kickers ( 1983-1985). In the season 1986/87 he helped out in eight games at Fortuna Cologne.

Horst Buhtz led Neunkirchen, Wuppertal, Nuremberg and Uerdingen from the second division to the Bundesliga. He won in 1972 with the Wuppertalern all eight games the promotion round, which was held 1964-1974, which remained unique. In the following Bundesliga season he was with the WSV Fourth and thus managed to qualify for the Europa League 's predecessor UEFA Cup.

Horst Buhtz now lives in the Rhenish Langenfeld

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